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Ihe United States consumes the most coffee of
any country in the world. Each day Americans down
440 million cups of coffee in what might be termed
the eternal coffee break.
Coffee is not native to America but is thought to
have been discovered in the middle of the 9th century
in Ethiopia. This discovery was by a legendary goat
herder who saw his goats acting particularly frisky
after grazing on certain berries. He ate the berries and
felt a sense of exhilaration himself.
Coffee spread throughout the world and at the end
of the sixteenth century was condemned by the
Roman Catholic Church as the wine of Islam, an
infidel drink. After Pope Clement VII tasted coffee,
he decided it was too delicious to let the heathen
have to themselves and declared it a Christian drink.
Coffee houses popular
Coffee houses became popular in Europe. Johann
Sebastian Bach wrote "Coffee Cantata", which
expressed the feelings of women whose husbands
neglected them to drink coffee with the boys.
German women solved this problem by developing
the Kaffeeklatsch.
Coffee received a boost in the United States by
prohibition in 1919.
Coffee is composed of tannins, caffeine, caffeal,
caramelized sugar and carbon dioxide. It has little
food value unless sugar or milk is added, but the
caffeine is stimulating to muscular and mental
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activity. Excessive amounts of caffeine and tannin
may be irritating to the digestive tract.
There are a few things to remember to make
delicious coffee every time. Once a container of
coffee is opened and exposed to the air loss of carbon
dioxide- and caffeal, it loses flavor. It is best to store
coffee in a tightly covered metal or glass container.
Storing coffee in the refrigerator will reduce these
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losses somewhat. Coffee should be bought in small
quantities, perhaps a week's supply at a time.
Bitter substance
Tannins are a bitter substance which make up part
of the characteristic flavor of coffee. As the hot water
nears the boiling point, the tannins dissolve more
easily in the solution and other flavor substances are
driven off as volatile gases. Therefore, if coffee is
boiled, only the bitter taste of the tannins remain.
There are a number of coffee makers on the
market, but to coffee connoisseurs the drip or filter
pot is the only kind. Drip coffee is prepared with a
very short contact time between the water and the
coffee. First the pot is heated (rinse with hot water)
and boiling water is poureu over nneiy grouna conee
held in a sieve usually lined with filter paper.
In another type, the vacuum pot, water is poured
into the lower bowl and is heated. The steam rises
and water is forced into the upper portion where it
mixes with the coffee. When the pot is removed from
' heat, a vacuum is formed and draws the coffee to the
lower bowl.Vacuum coffee makers are generally made
of Pyrex or stainless steel.
Eighty per cent of coffee drunk in America is
made in percolators. Some think this is the reason
Americans are considered the leading coffee drinkers
but not the leading coffee makers.
General guidelines
People will probably never agree on how strong a
cup of coffee should be, exactly how to make it, or
what brand of coffee to use. However, here are some
general guidelines that should insure a good cup of
coffee:
-start with a clean coffee maker,
-keep coffee covered tightly and always use fresh
coffee.
use freshly drawn cold water. Never begin with
hot water, it changes the percolating time.
-serve steaming hot coffee as soon as possible. If
coffee must stand for any length of time remove
grounds and hold coffee at serving temperature over
low heat. Do not boil.
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Dance performance 'expressing
mystery of people' Friday night
By Susan Edwards
Unlike contemporary dancers who attempt to
express the mystery of falling leaves, the moon
of "pure" movement, Daniel Nagrin says that his
dances express the mystery of people.
The acclaimed dancer is in residence this week
at the UNL Physical Education Department
giving master, classes in modern dance,
improvisational choreography and special
techniques in dance, acting and mime.
Friday, at 8 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall,
Nagrin will dance with the university's Dance
Ensemble. The Ensemble, according to Marie
Sanwick, assistant professor of physical
education, is a group of skilled students who will
form a nucleus for a student dance company
next year.
In addition to Nagrin's solo pieces, the Dance
Ensemble will perform a dance which Nagrin has
choreographed this week specifically for them.
The dance then will become a permanent part of
the Ensemble's repertoire.
Contradictions intriguing
Nagrin said that people "the spine of his
interest"-are intriguing in their contradictions.
People's actions are confusing and often
destructive to themselves and others, he said.
He said the difficulties of expressing human
actions and emotions are increased by the
process of art, which he said is itself a mystery.
In a lecture-demonstration for Nebraska
Education Television Network, Nagrin said that
he explores the definition of art-"Are we
supposed to understand it or is it supposed to be
a mystery?"
The artist, he said speaks another language,
whether it is dance or music or painting, and
cannot explain what he or she is doing.
"Once the dance is over, what I initially
thought about it is the least important tiling," he
said. People experience the dance and then
shouldn't worry about not "understanding it."
Broadway show dancing
Nagrin has toured with his solo dance program
and classes since 1958 after 10 years of
Broadway show dancing. In addition to leads in
Annie Get Your Gun and Lend an Ear, he
received the Donnaldson award as Best Male
Dancer of the Yea for Plain and Fancey.
When he started touring. Nagrin said that
dancing students were very inhibited and "goody
gumdrops." It was enough, he said, to put on the
tights and leotards-"a radical garment, close to
nudity."
"People had a fear and loathing of their
body," he said, "scolding it, keeping it morally
and physically clean to an extreme and hiding
it."
Growing dance interest
Now people are beginning to be excited, not
ashamed, of their bodies, Nagrin said, which is
reflected in the growing interest in dance.
Nagrin is known for his application of the
Stanislavski acting techniques to dance. The
method, he said, necessitates a clear focus of who
one is supposed to be before acting on that basis.
Although virtuosity can cover the comy actor
who simply assumes the theatrical gestures and
techniques of emotion, Nagrin said, the
Stanislavski actor experiences the genuine
emotions.
By relating to another human being, giving to
and caring for that person-performing the
actions, he said, one eventually feels the
emotion.
"Technique and morality," he said, "are
strands of the same rope" whether in dancing or
acting or living.
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daily nebraskan
thursday, april 10, 1975